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    Friday Foster (1975)

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    Fearless magazine photographer Friday Foster (Pam Grier) discovers a plot to assassinate one of her subjects – Blake Tarr (Thalmus Rasulala), the wealthiest black man in America – and faces a nerve-wracking race against time to save his life.

    Friday’s subsequent investigation, with cranky PI Colt Hawkins (Yaphet Kotto) at her side, comprises a clichéd string of close calls with incompetent would-be killers and convenient discoveries of clues. It’s all very laboured and it’s impossible to care what happens, even in the rare instances when the storyline is decipherable.

    It’s a silly adventure story based on a family-friendly newspaper comic strip, but with the requisite level of sex and violence added to earn its blaxploitation credentials.

    Pam Grier – who starred so well in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997) – is joined by a terrific black cast including Godfrey Cambridge (crook), Eartha Kitt (fashion designer) and Scatman Crothers (minister). The villainous mastermind (Jim Backus) is white, though. Love Boat bartender Ted Lange plays a pimp named “Fancy Dexter” in a spectacularly bad performance.

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    Friday Foster
    Pam Grier
    Colt Hawkins
    Yaphet Kotto
    Ford Malotte
    Godfrey Cambridge
    Blake Tarr
    Thalmus Rasulala
    Fancy Dexter
    Ted Lange
    Madame Rena
    Eartha Kitt
    Enos Griffith
    Jim Backus
    Reverend Noble Franklin
    Scatman Crothers

    Director
    Arthur Marks

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